Didn't see this in notables earlier. Some other cities are pissed the Almighty Amazon didn't choose them:

The Wall Street Journal

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Amazon will divide its second headquarters evenly between New York's Long Island City and Arlington County's Crystal City neighborhoods. Other cities may also receive major sites.

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On the heels of that, the energetic bugeyed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is having a straight-up hissyfit and wants to tell Jeff Bezos how to run his company. Heh heh heh

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1062206203709800448

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‏Verified account @Ocasio2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Retweeted The Wall Street Journal

We’ve been getting calls and outreach from Queens residents all day about this.

The community’s response? Outrage.

Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.

When we talk about bringing jobs to the community, we need to dig deep: - Has the company promised to hire in the existing community? - What’s the quality of jobs + how many are promised? Are these jobs low-wage or high wage? Are there benefits? Can people collectively bargain?

Displacement is not community development. Investing in luxury condos is not the same thing as investing in people and families. Shuffling working class people out of a community does not improve their quality of life.

We need to focus on good healthcare, living wages, affordable rent. Corporations that offer none of those things should be met w/ skepticism. It’s possible to establish economic partnerships w/ real opportunities for working families, instead of a race-to-the-bottom competition.

Lastly, this isn’t just about one company or one headquarters. It’s about cost of living, corps paying their fair share, etc. It’s not about picking a fight, either. I was elected to advocate for our community’s interests - & they‘ve requested, clearly, to voice their concerns.

>>3881174

As usual there are some family connections worth knowing about that judge in Atlanta.

Amy Totenberg is the sister of National Public Radio's Legal Affairs Consultant and reporter Nina Totenberg.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/08/a_stolen_stradivarius_comes_ho.html

Pic related L-R: Nina, their mother Jill, and Amy with their late father's Stradivarius violin

>>3881227

No one wants to sit next to you at parties, do they?

>>3881294

Interesting that it's Maryland

Maryland, where the Port of Baltimore is located

John Brennan, paging John Brennan to the white phones please

Your container of weapons is now departing at Slip 4

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6383133/Internet-traffic-hijack-disrupts-Google-services.html

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Google is hit by 'worst ever' internet hijack: Users' search, cloud and business services intercepted by Nigeria, China and Russia in 'wargame experiment'

An internet traffic diversion disrupted Google services and re-routed its data

Interruptions lasted for nearly 1.5 hours until 10:30pm GMT (5:30pm EST)

Russian, Chinese and Nigerian internet service providers were involved

Google said it had no reason to believe the traffic hijacking was malicious

Network intelligence experts disagree and believe it may have been a wargame

Published: 02:06 EST, 13 November 2018 | Updated: 03:33 EST, 13 November 2018

Google has been hit by an attack that the re-routed the firm's global internet traffic through servers located in Russia, China and Nigeria.

Security experts have spoken out about the data diversion, which they believe was part of a 'wargame experiment' being run by the three nations involved.

Information from Google searches, cloud-hosting services and the company's bundle of collaboration tools for businesses - known as G Suite - were all affected.

Google is downplaying the incident, described by one expert as the 'worst ever' in the firm's history, saying it does not believe it was malicious.

The firm has yet to confirm the exact nature of the data affected, as well as how many users have been put at risk, with millions potentially in the firing line.

Experts are concerned about the prospect of the nations involved gaining access to users' private data by monitoring re-routed traffic.

The attack may also be a sign of things to come as cyber warfare steps up between the West and its global competitors.

The diversion 'at a minimum caused a massive denial of service to G Suite and Google Search' and 'put valuable Google traffic in the hands of ISPs in countries with a long history of Internet surveillance,' the network intelligence company ThousandEyes said in a blog post.

Service interruptions lasted for nearly one and a half hours and ended about 10:30pm GMT (5:30pm EST), the network service companies said.

In addition to Russian and Chinese telecommunications firms, a Nigerian internet service provider (ISP) was also involved.

A Google status page noted that 'access to some Google services was impacted' and said the cause was 'external to Google.' The company offered little additional information.

MailOnline has contacted Google for a comment but had not received a reply at the time of publication.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6383133/Internet-traffic-hijack-disrupts-Google-services.html

Google is hit by 'worst ever' internet hijack